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float:right; font-size: 0.9em; width:40%; background:#F1F1ED; background-image: url('https://launchpadlibrarian.net/57060875/logo.red.png'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: 98% 0.5ex; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; &quot;"><tbody><tr> <td style="&quot; padding:0.5em; &quot;"><p class="line891"><div class="table-of-contents"><p class="table-of-contents-heading">Contents<ol><li> <a href="#LibreOffice_installation_on_Ubuntu">LibreOffice installation on Ubuntu</a><ol><li> <a href="#Full_installation">Full installation</a></li><li> <a href="#Selective_installation">Selective installation</a></li><li> <a href="#Installing_other_related_packages_.28dictionaries.2C_extensions.2C_clipart.2C_templates.2C_etc..29">Installing other related packages (dictionaries, extensions, clipart, templates, etc.)</a></li><li> <a href="#Language_localization.2C_spell_checking.2C_dictionary.2C_hyphenation.2C_thesaurus.2C_and_help">Language localization, spell checking, dictionary, hyphenation, thesaurus, and help</a></li><li> <a href="#Installing_a_newer_version_of_LibreOffice_than_available_via_Ubuntu_repositories">Installing a newer version of LibreOffice than available via Ubuntu repositories</a></li></ol></li><li> <a href="#Troubleshooting_LibreOffice">Troubleshooting LibreOffice</a></li><li> <a href="#Building_LibreOffice">Building LibreOffice</a></li><li> <a href="#Debugging_LibreOffice">Debugging LibreOffice</a></li><li> <a href="#LibreOffice_packaging">LibreOffice packaging</a></li></ol></li></ol></div></td> </tr> </tbody></table></div><span class="anchor" id="line-4"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-5"></span><p class="line862">If you’re using Ubuntu, please don’t install LibreOffice manually from the .deb files available at <a class="https" href="https://www.libreoffice.org/download/">libreoffice.org</a>. Otherwise you will not get automatic updates, upgrades when new versions come out, integration with Ubuntu, and is unsupported for Ubuntu bug filing purposes. Using packages from supported Ubuntu repositories ensures you get the best assistance as this is the recommended method to install and use LibreOffice in Ubuntu. <span class="anchor" id="line-6"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-7"></span><p class="line867"> <h3 id="Full_installation">Full installation</h3> <span class="anchor" id="line-8"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-9"></span><p class="line862">Performing a full installation is the recommended way to install LibreOffice in Ubuntu. One would do this by installing the LibreOffice metapackage via a terminal: <span class="anchor" id="line-10"></span><div><table style="&quot; background-color: #eee&quot;"><tbody><tr> <td><p class="line891"><tt>sudo apt install libreoffice</tt></td> </tr> </tbody></table></div><span class="anchor" id="line-11"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-12"></span><p class="line867"> <h3 id="Selective_installation">Selective installation</h3> <span class="anchor" id="line-13"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-14"></span><p class="line874">While this isn't recommended, one may install a subset of the full installation. An example package set: <span class="anchor" id="line-15"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-16"></span><ul><li>libreoffice-writer: Word processor <span class="anchor" id="line-17"></span></li><li>libreoffice-calc: Spreadsheet <span class="anchor" id="line-18"></span></li><li>libreoffice-impress: Presentation <span class="anchor" id="line-19"></span></li><li>libreoffice-draw: Drawing <span class="anchor" id="line-20"></span></li><li>libreoffice-base: Database <span class="anchor" id="line-21"></span></li><li>libreoffice-math: Equation editor <span class="anchor" id="line-22"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-23"></span></li></ul><p class="line867"> <h3 id="Installing_other_related_packages_.28dictionaries.2C_extensions.2C_clipart.2C_templates.2C_etc..29">Installing other related packages (dictionaries, extensions, clipart, templates, etc.)</h3> <span class="anchor" id="line-24"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-25"></span><p class="line874">Additional language modules, help files and extensions are also available if you search for “libreoffice” in your package manager. Example how to search: <span class="anchor" id="line-26"></span><div><table style="&quot; background-color: #eee&quot;"><tbody><tr> <td><p class="line891"><tt>apt-cache search libreoffice-help-en</tt></td> </tr> </tbody></table></div><span class="anchor" id="line-27"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-28"></span><p class="line874">Here are a few examples: <span class="anchor" id="line-29"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-30"></span><ul><li>libreoffice-help-*: help files <span class="anchor" id="line-31"></span></li><li>libreoffice-l10n-*: localization files <span class="anchor" id="line-32"></span></li><li><p class="line862">libreoffice-nlpsolver - "Solver for Nonlinear Programming" extension for LibreOffice <span class="anchor" id="line-33"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-34"></span></li></ul><p class="line867"> <h3 id="Language_localization.2C_spell_checking.2C_dictionary.2C_hyphenation.2C_thesaurus.2C_and_help">Language localization, spell checking, dictionary, hyphenation, thesaurus, and help</h3> <span class="anchor" id="line-35"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-36"></span><p class="line862">To install proper support for language writing aids you may install the corresponding packages libreoffice-l10n-*, myspell-*, hyphen-*, mythes-*, libreoffice-help-* followed by your language ISO 639-1 code. A complete list of such language codes is available <a class="https" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes">here</a>. <span class="anchor" id="line-37"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-38"></span><p class="line874">For example, the corresponding French packages are: <span class="anchor" id="line-39"></span><ul><li>libreoffice-l10n-fr <span class="anchor" id="line-40"></span></li><li>myspell-fr <span class="anchor" id="line-41"></span></li><li>hyphen-fr <span class="anchor" id="line-42"></span></li><li>mythes-fr <span class="anchor" id="line-43"></span></li><li>libreoffice-help-fr <span class="anchor" id="line-44"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-45"></span></li></ul><p class="line862">Please be advised that not all languages have these corresponding packages. For more information on language support in LibreOffice please check <a class="http" href="http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Language_support_of_LibreOffice">here</a>. <span class="anchor" id="line-46"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-47"></span><p class="line867"> <h3 id="Installing_a_newer_version_of_LibreOffice_than_available_via_Ubuntu_repositories">Installing a newer version of LibreOffice than available via Ubuntu repositories</h3> <span class="anchor" id="line-48"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-49"></span><p class="line862">If you want to get a later version of LibreOffice then provided by the Ubuntu repositories, and you have tested this appropriately for your environment, you may do so via one of the PPAs provided by the <a class="https" href="https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice">LibreOffice Packaging</a> team. For example, one may add the LibreOffice PPA repository: <span class="anchor" id="line-50"></span><div><table style="&quot; background-color: #eee&quot;"><tbody><tr> <td><p class="line891"><tt>sudo apt install python-software-properties</tt></td> </tr> <tr> <td><span class="anchor" id="line-51"></span><p class="line891"><tt>sudo apt-add-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa</tt></td> </tr> <tr> <td><span class="anchor" id="line-52"></span><p class="line891"><tt>sudo apt update</tt></td> </tr> </tbody></table></div><span class="anchor" id="line-53"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-54"></span><p class="line867">LibreOffice is now available for installation. <span class="anchor" id="line-55"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-56"></span><p class="line867"> <h2 id="Troubleshooting_LibreOffice">Troubleshooting LibreOffice</h2> <span class="anchor" id="line-57"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-58"></span><p class="line862">If you find any issues when using LibreOffice with Ubuntu, <a class="https" href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LibreOfficeBugWrangling">please follow the bug reporting guidelines</a>. <span class="anchor" id="line-59"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-60"></span><p class="line867"> <h2 id="Building_LibreOffice">Building LibreOffice</h2> <span class="anchor" id="line-61"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-62"></span><p class="line862">More information on building LibreOffice as a release build or a developer build can be found at <a href="/BuildingLibreOffice">BuildingLibreOffice</a>. <span class="anchor" id="line-63"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-64"></span><p class="line867"> <h2 id="Debugging_LibreOffice">Debugging LibreOffice</h2> <span class="anchor" id="line-65"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-66"></span><p class="line862">More information on debugging LibreOffice as a release build or a developer build can be found at <a href="/DebuggingLibreOffice">DebuggingLibreOffice</a>. <span class="anchor" id="line-67"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-68"></span><p class="line867"> <h2 id="LibreOffice_packaging">LibreOffice packaging</h2> <span class="anchor" id="line-69"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-70"></span><p class="line862">More information on packaging LibreOffice for Ubuntu is available at <a href="/LibreOfficePackaging">LibreOfficePackaging</a>. <span class="anchor" id="line-71"></span><span class="anchor" id="bottom"></span></div>  <div id="pagebottom"></div> </div> <div class="entry-utility"> <span class="cat-links"> <p id="pageinfo" class="info" lang="en" dir="ltr">LibreOffice (last edited 2019-03-26 17:05:38 by <span title="fitojb @ localhost[127.0.0.1]"><a class="interwiki" href="https://launchpad.net/~fitojb" title="fitojb @ localhost[127.0.0.1]">fitojb</a></span>)</p> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="clearBoth"></div> </div> </div> <div id="footer"> <div id="siteinfo"> <p> The material on this wiki is available under a free license, see <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/License">Copyright / License</a> for details. </p> </div> </div> <script> (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){ i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){(i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-1018242-7', 'auto'); ga('send', 'pageview'); </script></body> </html>